WEBVTT - Introducing Started from the Bottom

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. Hey everyone, my name is Justin Richmond, and this

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<v Speaker 1>show started from the bottom as an origin that's probably

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<v Speaker 1>familiar to a lot of you listening. I was always

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<v Speaker 1>told growing up that college would be my ticket. It

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<v Speaker 1>was the end all be all. No one in my

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<v Speaker 1>family had ever completed a degree. So by the time

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<v Speaker 1>I transferred to UC Berkeley in twenty eleven, I thought

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<v Speaker 1>that as long as I made it through the next

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<v Speaker 1>two years, i'd made it. Of course, it was really

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<v Speaker 1>only the beginning. I had no idea what came next,

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<v Speaker 1>what I wanted to do for a living, or what

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<v Speaker 1>making a living even was. I was lost, and so

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<v Speaker 1>I started doing what I used to do as a kid.

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<v Speaker 1>Anytime I saw a brother who looked like me in

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<v Speaker 1>a Benz or a suit, I started asking successful black

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<v Speaker 1>men and women i'd see around what they did for me.

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<v Speaker 1>It seems like the only way I could figure any

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<v Speaker 1>of this out, and so that's when I'd be for

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<v Speaker 1>This show struck me to sert. Interviewing successful people who

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<v Speaker 1>grew up on the outside, people of color, people who

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<v Speaker 1>weren't part of the old boys network, people who grew

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<v Speaker 1>up in a world where almost nobody went to college.

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<v Speaker 1>How did they do it? How did they beat the

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<v Speaker 1>odds while also beating away the nagging feeling of being

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<v Speaker 1>an imposture, of feeling like an outsider. This is started

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<v Speaker 1>from the bottom, hard earned success stories from people like

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<v Speaker 1>us coming soon. Wherever you get your podcasts,